Blender

The Blender Foundation (2002) is an independent public benefit organization with the purpose to provide a complete, free and open source 3D creation pipeline, managed by public projects on blender.org. The foundation offers grants to individual contributors to Blender, worldwide. Its spin-off corporation Blender Institute (2007) has been established in Amsterdam the Netherlands, it hosts the foundation's offices and currently employs over 20 people who work on the Blender software and creative projects to validate and stress Blender in production environments.